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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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ITXA - Need Utility to Perform Performance Testing

We are needing some type of Performance Testing Utility that users can use to test for Memory issues, Responses when running multiple instances of a job.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Display of Translation error in the Inflight search Dashboard

Every time we see any translation failure in Inflight, we will have to open the error-ed entry to see why the transaction got failed, and Inflight eventually do not show up the error immediately if there is any failure. It would take time to load ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add a utility page where telnet, ping and traceroute can be run

When trying to troubleshoot connectivity issues with API endpoints to backend applications from a PEM cloud instance, it would be very helpful if there was a way that a sponsor admin could run a telnet, ping or traceroute command. This cannot curr...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Option to create Dashboards in GrayLog

At the moment we don't have an option to create dashboards in the GrayLog. Given an option to create dashboards will help to monitor the number of errors or exceptions occurring on different business critical services.
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Oracle DB credentials rotations with zero downtime for OMS

Hi IBM, We have an internal security compliance requirement to meet the rotation policy for DB passwords. In the process, Can you please let us know if 1) there are any in-built OOB utilities of sterling OMS to achieve this DB password rotation co...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration